Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig

By Carl DiRocco, Alicia DesMarteau and Kalli Dakos

In September, when the school principal promises to kiss a pig if the students read 10,000 books, a girl volunteers Hamlet, her unwilling, Shakespeare-quoting pet pig. But poor Hamlet wants nothing to do with such foolishness.
 
“To kiss, or not to kiss,/The principal in school?/Why choose a pig/To be their fool?”
 
By the end of April the kids still have a long way to go, and it looks as if Hamlet is safe. But after an author comes to visit and the school has a book fair, the students quickly reach their goal. The date is set for the big kiss. Hamlet is miserable. But he tells himself, “A pig to himself must be true/In spite of plans that humans brew.” Will the principal follow through on her promise?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Albert Whitman Company
• Release date: Jul 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781497665378

Carl DiRocco

Carl DiRocco's's illustrations have been published in twelve children's books, including: Cooper and Packrat: Mystery on Pine Lake, and Cooper and Packrat: Mystery of the Eagle's Nest, (both Junior Library Guild winners), Dear Big, Mean, Ugly Monster, and Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig (a Children's Choice Selection). He is a graduate of the New England School of Art & Design in Boston and lives in Massachusetts.